Openwork Afterimages

Double-sided banners: Machine embroidered, hand-cut textiles (2026-)

These double-sided or reversible textile banners deal with the instability of observation, the traces that the unobserved leave on what we see, and how even seemingly disparate entities are interconnected. Openwork Afterimages bring together forms that seem otherwise unrelated - like jellyfish and orchids - or intertwined elements where attention is unevenly distributed, such as a flowering plant with the root system beneath it, or the visible inhabitants of a garden with the less conspicuous species and organisms that sustain it.

Some pairings draw on visual or structural affinities between seemingly distant forms; others reveal relationships of dependence and exchange that are hidden beneath the surface. That is, in a sense, the image and the afterimage.

Embroidered on both sides of the fabric, the works have no fixed front or back; what is an image from one perspective becomes a trace or residue from another. The two surfaces are therefore not opposites but interconnected states, each containing evidence of the other. Hung in space, the works can be encountered from multiple directions, while on the wall they can be turned to alter the balance between visibility and concealment. Across the series, the motifs point towards the wildly diverse connections between living things that surround us, suggesting that what we perceive as separate is part of a much larger, interconnected whole. Rather than resolving into a single image, they remain in a state of flux, inviting us to consider how perception is shaped by position.